Engineer's Notes

This week we had been performing a migration from Exchange 2013 to 2016. This process included a migration of mailboxes from Exchange 2013 database availability group to a new DAG on Exchange 2016 servers. As you may know, there is no way to add Exchange 2016 servers into an existing DAG, created on Exchange 2013 servers. So, I had been performing these migrations and found out that a correct target database was not set for one mailbox. This mailbox migrated to a second database located on Exchange 2013. When I noticed that mistake I tried to move the mailbox to a correct database, but I did not succeed. I created a new mailbox move request using ECP targeting it to a correct database. This move request have started an initialization process and ended up with a message that 0 mailboxes were synced and 0 were finalized. The highlighted line stands for "Number of mailboxes finalized". I have migrated all the remaining mailboxes and was in need to solve that issue to decomm...

Yesterday I ran into an issue related to Project Server 2016. This was the first time I used this product to publish a project and I did not expect any issues. First I have put some tasks into the project and their durations. After that I saved this project to Project Server using my desktop Project application and published it successfully. Later I decided to add some resources to the project and was not able to publish it again. The following image is showing the error message which appears in the Project Server tasks list. You get two failures: ProjectPublishFailure (23000).  name='ProjectPublishFailure'  messagetype='Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.BusinessLayer.QueueMsg.UpdateSRAMessage: projectUid = 8ebbcaa0-6506-e811-9c4d-9cebe82e29b3'  messageID='14'  stage=''  blocking='Block'  and   GeneralQueueJobFailed (26000) - ProjectPublish.UpdateSRAMessage .  name='GeneralQueueJobFailed'  GroupType='ProjectPublish...